Imagine being forced to visit your grandparents for two weeks while your parents go off on a cruise. This may be fun for some kids, but for Kendra age 13 and Seth 11 they don't have a real relationship with their Grandma and Grandpa who has never bothered to spend a lot of time with them. Kendra and Seth are already counting the days until they can return home.
This all changes when they enter the gates of Fablehaven, their grandparents' country estate in Connecticut. From the time the two set foot in the door they realize something is not as it should be. Through some mischievous deductions Kendra and Seth learn their grandparents are caretakers of a magical sanctuary complete with enchanted milk, fairies, satyrs and a resident evil witch.
The fun begins in book one, FABLEHAVEN, and continues for four books. Author Brandon Mull has captured the heart and imagination of every youngster with this series and adults are reading it too. Books one through four are in paperback and cost $6.99, while book five remains in hardcover for a slightly higher price. You'll want to put this series on your Christmas list!
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Another book series I'd like to share with you is 100 CUPBOARDS by N. D. Wilson. Twelve year old Henry York's parents have been kidnapped and he is sent to a small town in Kansas to live with his aunt and uncle. At night while in bed he hears mysterious bumps and thumps on the other side of the attic wall. When debris falls on him he looks up to find odd things emerging from the wall above his bed. He scrapes off the plaster on the wall and finds 99 cupboards of all different shapes and sizes. Through each cupboard Henry can see a different activity going on and he will soon learn that these are not just cupboards but portals to other worlds.
There are four books in this fun filled series and Henry takes young readers on a adventurous tour of the unique cupboards. This is a series not to be missed! Books in the 100 CUPBOARD series are $6.99 a copy.
I'll have more fun series to introduce you to throughout this fall and winter, so make sure you visit the Kid's Corner each month for updates!
Livia
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
TRRC Kid's Corner Inaguration
Welcome to the debut of The Romance Readers Connection, Kids Corner. Here we'll discuss Independent Reader and Young Adult Books of all types. From the classic children stories to the glam and paranormal, we'll cover them all and we invite you and your parents to post and discuss any titles you feel we have overlooked.
Each month we'll spotlight one particular book and we'll urge you to read it and post your comments. For the month of October it's THE BOOTLEGGER'S SECRET by Michael Springer.
It is summer 1941 and Mark Penn and Swede Larson, two eleven year
year olds that live in Minnesota are hanging out by the river where
they've built their treehouse. It's a hot summer day and a swim is a
necessity. Slowly submerging from the river is a 1931 Pierce-Arrow.
The hood ornament is just breaking the surface and Swede dives down
and inside the car and comes up with a gold cigarette case
containing Turkish filter-tips and a photograph of a very
beautiful woman. This sets off a fire storm of investigations.
The corpse of the owner of the Pierce-Arrow is later recovered and
it turns out he was a "bootlegger" and a member of Al Capone's
Chicago gang. He and his car have been missing for eight years and
that marevelous cigarette case that is so attractive to the two
boys contains a secret compartment with data the local police and
treasury agents would love to have. Unfortunately so would the
Chicago gangsters. When the case disappears Mark and Swede are
caught in a trap between the Treasury men and the gangsters.
Mark and Swede are in for a very exciting and scary summer. Where
previously they had their summer baseball jobs (Mark is a team
batboy and Swede a ball shagger) and the Ringling Brothers,
Barnum & Bailey Circus to look forward to, they now have a
mystery to solve. . . . . hopefully without getting harmed themselves.
THE BOOTLEGGER'S SECRET is published as a tradesize paperback and is issued by Outskirts Press. None of the chain or independent bookstores had a copy of this book but the online stores carry copies. It is a fun fast-paced story that holds real insight into life in the United States the summer before World War II.
Each month we'll spotlight one particular book and we'll urge you to read it and post your comments. For the month of October it's THE BOOTLEGGER'S SECRET by Michael Springer.
It is summer 1941 and Mark Penn and Swede Larson, two eleven year
year olds that live in Minnesota are hanging out by the river where
they've built their treehouse. It's a hot summer day and a swim is a
necessity. Slowly submerging from the river is a 1931 Pierce-Arrow.
The hood ornament is just breaking the surface and Swede dives down
and inside the car and comes up with a gold cigarette case
containing Turkish filter-tips and a photograph of a very
beautiful woman. This sets off a fire storm of investigations.
The corpse of the owner of the Pierce-Arrow is later recovered and
it turns out he was a "bootlegger" and a member of Al Capone's
Chicago gang. He and his car have been missing for eight years and
that marevelous cigarette case that is so attractive to the two
boys contains a secret compartment with data the local police and
treasury agents would love to have. Unfortunately so would the
Chicago gangsters. When the case disappears Mark and Swede are
caught in a trap between the Treasury men and the gangsters.
Mark and Swede are in for a very exciting and scary summer. Where
previously they had their summer baseball jobs (Mark is a team
batboy and Swede a ball shagger) and the Ringling Brothers,
Barnum & Bailey Circus to look forward to, they now have a
mystery to solve. . . . . hopefully without getting harmed themselves.
THE BOOTLEGGER'S SECRET is published as a tradesize paperback and is issued by Outskirts Press. None of the chain or independent bookstores had a copy of this book but the online stores carry copies. It is a fun fast-paced story that holds real insight into life in the United States the summer before World War II.
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